The Ultimate Year Quiz - 1931
See what you know about the year 1931
Quiz created by: Mr. Badger Hawkeye
1. What was the top grossing film of 1931?
(#) Dracula
(#) City Lights
(#) Frankenstein
(#) The Champ
2. What team won the 1931 World Series?
(#) New York Giants
(#) New York Yankees
(#) St. Louis Cardinals
(#) Philadelphia Athletics
3. What did the state of Nevada legalize on March 17, 1931?
(#) marijuana usage
(#) gambling
(#) alcohol consumption
(#) prostitution
4. Construction of what building was completed on May 1, 1931?
(#) Chrysler Building in New York City
(#) the Pentagon
(#) The Empire State Building
(#) Palmolive Building in Chicago
5. What famous inventor passed away on October 18, 1931?
(#) Alexander Graham Bell
(#) George Washington Carver
(#) Thomas Edison
(#) Guglielmo Marconi
6. What naval ship was placed back in full commission after a refit on March 1, 1931?
(#) USS Oklahoma
(#) USS California
(#) USS Arizona
(#) USS Missouri
7. What event happened on March 3, 1931?
(#) California gets the go-ahead by the U.S. Congress to start building the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
(#) An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua killing 2000 people
(#) The Star Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States national anthem
(#) The original film version of Dracula is released
8. Geli Raubal, who was found dead on September 18, 1931, was rumoured to have been the lover of what individual?
(#) Benito Mussolini
(#) the future King Edward VIII
(#) Joseph Stalin
(#) Adolf Hitler
9. The Labour government in what country resigned on August 24, 1931?
(#) Spain
(#) France
(#) United Kingdom
(#) Germany
10. Kemal Ataturk was re-elected President of what country on May 4, 1931?
(#) Turkey
(#) Greece
(#) Czechosolvakia
(#) Poland
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